List Of Toronto Raptors Head Coaches
The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Raptors are the only Canadian-based NBA team. The team joined the NBA in 1995 as an expansion team with the Vancouver Grizzlies (which relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 2001). The Raptors first played their home games at the SkyDome (now known as the Rogers Centre), before moving to the Air Canada Centre in 1999, where they have played since. The Raptors are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and Bryan Colangelo is their general manager.
There have been eight head coaches for the Raptors franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Brendan Malone, who coached for one season. Sam Mitchell is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (738) and the most regular-season game wins (156); Lenny Wilkens is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (17), the most playoff-game wins (8), and the highest winning percentage in both the regular-season and the playoffs (.459 and .471 respectively). Wilkens is the only Raptors coaches to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. Mitchell is the only Raptors coach to have won the NBA Coach of the Year Award, having won it in the 2006–07 season. Butch Carter, Kevin O'Neill, Mitchell, and Jay Triano have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Raptors. Triano was the interim head coach of the Raptors since Mitchell was fired. Triano is the first Canadian head coach in NBA history.
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